Daily Mail-o-matic: Now updated

Back in 2003, before I even started blogging, I created the Daily Mail Headline Generator, and within a couple of weeks a friend suggested some extra things to put in it. “Good idea”, I said, “I’ll update the code when I have the time”.

I’m nothing if not prompt, so a mere six years later, I’ve finally got round to doing it. Hey, it still beats Duke Nukem Forever. The code’s updated – it’s now in JavaScript, not Flash, and GPL-licenced (source). I’ve updated the dictionary for more contemporary feel (out goes Tony Blair, in comes Russell Brand) and it can handle the past and present tenses now. Suggestions for extra things to put in are welcome (add them in the comments below).

And while I’m on the subject of the Daily Mail – and I’d normally refrain from even telling you it has a website, let alone linking to it, the hatemongering bogroll that it is, but something in the latest column by homo-obsessed walking shitbag Richard Littlejohn slipped in unnoticed by the Mail’s irony detectors, it seems:

Apparently, my column is a constant reminder of why they did the right thing in emigrating to New Zealand.

Yeah, council snoopers is a good one. Can we have ‘knife crime’ and ‘gangs’ in there too, and what about maybe ‘crime statistics’? Is CCTV already included in the mix?

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